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To feel mentally alive, you have to do more than defeat distraction.

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Some patients don't trust us. Others say they don't need us. It's time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers.

A list of songs I loved in 2025.

In the Chinese director's third feature, the pop idol Jackson Yee plays a shape-shifting dreamer who gets lost in a densely allusive maze of stories and genres.

Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the "military-industrial-complex romantic comedy" "Atropia," recommends a few books that share a kinship with her new film, about actors working in a fake village where U.S. soldiers train.

The director's great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.

For the characters in Lee Lai's "Cannon," home is the place most resistant to real emotion.